Review: Netflix’s Homeless World Cup movie is a charmer

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Is it a little glossy and sanitized with a jaunty score? Sure. But it also thoughtfully explores themes of redemption, invisibility, pride and sportsmanship without being preachy or condescending.

This image released by Netflix shows, from left, Sheyi Cole, Kit Young, Callum Scott Howells, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Robin Nazari in a scene from “The Beautiful Game.”” The Beautiful Game,” a new movie starring Bill Nighy and Michael Ward, is about a real international soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup.

Colin Farrell, who narrated the 2008 documentary about the games and has since become an ambassador for the foundation, is one of the main producers on the film. Screenwriter Frank Cotrell-Boyce also worked with the foundation and past participants to inspire the characters he’d end up writing. It may be a movie, but it has legitimacy in its bones.

Nighy plays Mal, a kind and soft-spoken football legend who coaches the homeless England team: Nathan , Aldar , Kevin , Cal and Jason . They all have stories of how they got where they were, but all are kind and eager and excited to play. Vinny is the stick in the mud, making things tense and awkward at every turn. Essentially, he thinks he’s better than his teammates on the field and off, which of course says more about him than the other guys.

It’s PG-13 rating is a little puzzling — this does seem on the tamer end of the scale and appropriate for most ages. And, not for nothing, Sharrock and her team do a good job of showing just how exciting soccer can be .Ask Amy: Are my 3 college rules too harsh? My daughter says they are.Ex-Caltrain employee, contractor charged with building secret homes at train stations

 

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